Wow! We ve learned a lot over the past few lessons. Here s another lesson that will bring all of this together for you.

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1 Hey musician, Wow! We ve learned a lot over the past few lessons. Here s another lesson that will bring all of this together for you. (But first, if you haven t downloaded my previous activities, you ll want to visit these pages: and to print out those flash cards. This lesson ties EVERYTHING together so pay close attention to what I m about to share). So you know your numbers. Good job. You also know your 4 foundational chords that create just about EVERY chord you ll ever want to play (from the smallest to the biggest chords). Now I will show you how to make sense of it all. Listen, here s how I think about music Notes create scales > scales create chords (so far you ve learned this much) > chords create progressions > progressions create songs (this last half, you ll learn today). My wife loves to read Oprah s O magazine every month. But what s interesting is that she usually buys it just for the last page of the ENTIRE magazine (I mean, she reads the other stuff too but this last page is what sells the magazine for her). It s Oprah s personal column called What I Know For Sure and it s usually very inspirational, awe-inspiring stuff. Well, that little paragraph you just read above about notes creating scales, and scales creating chords and so on --- THAT S WHAT I KNOW FOR SURE. And if you let that settle in, you ll never be scared of learning music again. It will never be overwhelming to you ever again. And if you ve learned nothing else in this series of videos and activities, hopefully you ve learned that music doesn t have to be hard and that you can learn meaningful shortcuts to speed up the process. This latest activity will allow you to create progressions. You ll take the chords from the last lesson and you ll learn how to combine them into patterns and movements (aka progressions ) that are heard in REAL songs. And guess what? That s all us ear-musicians do. We know the patterns and progressions and we ve gotten good at spotting them in real songs. That s it. Now that you have the keys to unlock MANY doors, perhaps you ll start with some small doors (easier patterns to recognize) but soon, those same keys will unlock bigger and BIGGER AND BIGGER doors trust me. You just have to twist the key it won t twist itself. Enjoy and excel, Jermaine, Founder Hearandplay.com 1

2 INSTRUCTIONS 1) Basically, these are flash cards. I ve placed the questions on one page and the corresponding answers on the very next page. For your convenience, I ve put little numbers in the upper left corner so you can match up the right questions with the right answers. They will have the same unique number (if the question has a 1 on it but the answer has a 2, then you ve paired up the wrong flash cards). You ll see what I mean once you look at them. 2) If you re familiar with printing double-sided pages, you may want to first start by printing the odd number pages. You can do this in the PRINT MENU right before you print this document. Tell the printer to only print ODD-numbered pages (that means, pages 1, 3, 5, 7, and so forth). Then, once those pages have printed, put them back in your printer and print the EVEN-numbered pages on the other side (pages 2, 4, 6, 8, etc). Make sure to put the paper in the correct way. Every printer does this differently but you ll figure it out (I have full confidence in you). The ink may show through lighter paper so you may want to use thicker paper or try step #3 instead. 3) If you just can t print double-sided copies or you find the ink is showing through the paper (which causes you to see the answer and CHEAT ), simply print every page separately. Then staple or glue the answer pages to the back of the question pages. Then simply cut them out and you should have flash cards that are ready to go! 4) EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: I don t want you learning the wrong information so make sure the little number id in the top left matches for the question AND the answer. If it doesn t, you ve done something wrong and will be quizzing yourself with the WRONG answers. That s a big no-no! 5) Enjoy yourself! Have fun! Learn these music relationships! 2

3 Here s an example of the circle of fifths. Whatever you do, SAVE THIS PAGE. This is the key to understanding how chords fit with real-life songs. Music moves in the direction of this circle. In fact, you ll find that probably 80% of the songs you hear have chords moving from chord to chord in this exact pattern ( songwriters don t reinvent the wheel they use the wheel. ) wheel = circle get my joke? Cough cough oh well. QUICK WAY TO INTERPRET THIS CIRCLE: C has a strong pull to F --- F has a strong pull to Bb --- and so on. Every key has two things going on 1) A key that pulls strongly to *IT*, and 2) A key that *IT* pulls strongly to. In the case of C 1) It pulls strongly to F --- and 2) G pulls strongly to it. When you understand this, you ll clearly see why a chord progression (example: D minor to G major to C major ) is so popular it s because it s moving in the direction of the circle.

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5 1 2 1 st Tone Is 2nd Tone Is rd Tone Is 4 th Tone Is th Tone Is 6 th Tone Is th Tone Is Blank 5

6 2 1 minor major 4 3 major minor 6 minor 5 major or dominant 8 Blank 7 Diminished or Half Diminished 6

7 9 10 C Pulls F Pulls Bb Pulls Eb Pulls Ab Pulls Db Pulls F# Pulls B Pulls 7

8 10 Bb 9 F 12 Ab 11 Eb 14 Gb 13 Db 16 E 15 B 8

9 17 18 E Pulls A Pulls D Pulls G Pulls Strongly To C Strongly To F Strongly To Bb Strongly To Eb 9

10 18 D 17 A 20 C 19 G 22 C 21 G 24 Bb 23 F 10

11 25 26 Strongly To Ab Strongly To Db Strongly To Gb Strongly To B Strongly To E Strongly To A Strongly To D Strongly To G 11

12 26 Ab 25 Eb 28 F# (Not Gb --- Gb pulls strongly to Cb ) 27 Db 30 E 29 B 32 D 31 A 12